Pigment of the Imagination: Essay Film as a Navigation of Liminality
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Carle [Charman], Trudy Ann
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Ings, Welby
Brannigan, Ross
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Auckland University of Technology
Abstract
This creative, practice-led project considers the potential of essay film to negotiate a complex whanau narrative. It explores the intricate pathway of a family born and raised between two cultures who must navigate the space between. By definition, this in-between or liminal space, is transitional; a space to be traversed. However, the project, in unpacking and synthesising narratives, proposes the liminal as a place in which one might rightfully stand. Thus the ‘half-caste’ might be of both worlds but exist, fully resolved, within a third space.Description
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Essay film, Racial hybridity, Liminal space, Heuristic methodology, Cultural displacement